NLSY79 Children and Young Adults

In 1986, a separate survey of all children born to NLSY79 female respondents
began, greatly expanding the breadth of child-specific information
collected. In addition to all the mother's information from the NLSY79,
the child survey includes assessments of each child as well as additional
demographic and development information collected from either the mother
or child. For children aged 10 and older, information has been collected
from the children biennially since 1988 on a variety of factors including
child-parent interaction, attitudes toward schooling, dating and
friendship patterns, religious attendance, health, substance use, and home
responsibilities. Biennially (since 1994), children ages 15 and older
complete a lengthy child interview modeled on the NLSY79 questionnaire.
Information collected includes their schooling, training, work experiences
and expectations, health, dating, fertility and marital histories, and
household composition. [More]